Regulators looking into Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
After a boom in decentralized financial applications (DeFi) regulators are increasingly looking into the young subsector of the crypto industry. The US Commodity Futures Trading…
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Hedge Funds Increasingly Interested in Cryptocurrencies
PricewaterhouseCoopers International (PwC) has published a comprehensive report on cryptocurrencies. The study provides an overview of how hedge funds and asset managers are dealing with…
Crime with Cryptocurrencies – Regulatory and Market Evidence
Two authoritative market intelligence reports on the illicit use of cryptocurrencies, released in February 2021, evidence a marked decrease in the phenomena during 2020 –…
Crypto exchanges expand services with tokenized stocks
Some crypto exchanges have enabled their users to trade traditional stocks through tokenized products. Now Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, is venturing into the…
Trends Crypto Markets Q1 2021
In the first quarter, the crypto markets saw significant gains. Accordingly, it can be hard to keep track. The crypto market capitalization reached 2 trillion…
Decentralised Exchanges (DEXes) – Trustless and Secure
Centralised Exchanges have played a pivotal role in the crypto asset ecosystem, acting as fiat ramps, custodians, exchange, market makers and VCs. Algorithmic smart contract…
Why the DeFi and ICO hype aren’t the same
2017 feels like it happened a decade ago for most people, but many of people still have vivid memories of it, especially those who invested…
Does Wall Street Need More Decentralization?
The GameStop (GME) debacle garnered a lot of attention. Some people consider the problem to be centralized systems. According to these critics, the shortcomings of…
Institutional interest in tokenisation is growing
As investment in crypto assets grows, blockchain applications and especially the use case of tokenisation are coming into focus. Institutions face the challenge of adopting…
5 questions answered by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
How will blockchain technology affect our lives? Can digital currencies establish themselves as an asset class? The questions that arise in the world of crypto…